Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.
